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...retrospect, Bell said, he might have beenable to campaign better for diversity from withinthe Law School...
Whether it was because we were young or the movies were young or the world was at least youngish, old-fashioned Hollywood history was exhilarating. In retrospect there is something alarming about its simplicities and the enthusiasm we brought to it. It is the great virtue of this grandly scaled yet deliriously energetic movie that it reanimates that long-ago feeling without patronizing it -- and without making us think we will wake up some day once again embarrassed...
...retrospect, the phenomenon makes sense: the thyroid gland tends to concentrate iodine ingested by the body, and radioactive iodine was released in bulk during the accident. Moreover, radiation is known to cause thyroid cancer, and children are especially susceptible. But previous studies of nuclear accidents in Britain and the U.S. and studies of nuclear-weapons testing in Japan and the South Pacific have failed to prove a fallout-cancer correlation conclusively. The probable difference this time: the radiation was more highly concentrated and hit a heavily populated area...
...Intentions -- written by Bergman but directed by Bille August, the Dane who made Pelle the Conqueror -- proves you can't keep a solemn Swede down. It recounts the first married years of Bergman's parents, whose later lives he dramatized in his family-album movie, Fanny and Alexander. In retrospect we can see that Bergman was unlikely to retire to some Fort Lauderdale of the soul; familiar demons would fill his afternoon naps with nightmares. And with the unfinished business of putting his parents on paper. Somebody else would put them on film...
...such episode overlapped the MacArthur phenomenon and went deeper than it did. Senator Joseph McCarthy has become something of an evil joke when seen in retrospect. But he stood high in the polls for longer periods than MacArthur did. Even at the end of Eisenhower's first year in office, McCarthy was supported by 50% of the people in a Gallup poll, with only 29% opposed to him. The history books tell us that many national figures -- including Eisenhower himself -- were afraid to defy McCarthy in his reckless early days; we neglect the reason -- the outpouring of popular support...